I have an unformed idea that is coming into formation as I write. I recognize that, like Napoleon Hill, I have a virtual group that helps me concretize ideas. This group, this morning, are the people of Inward Quest.

I am asking for your input regarding the following concept of RESISTANCE.

What is RESISTANCE?

It seems to me that we humans are seeking balance, equilibrium. We consider "negative behavior" patterns as something to neutralize. Could "resistance" be the force we have been using to compensate for negative behavior patterns?

On one hand, we may have an idea that we would like to be SUCCESSFUL. But we consider that we are not. For the sake of this example, hold the idea of "Successful" in your right hand.

This right hand is pushing towards success. Why is it not happening? Because in your left hand you hold all the reasons why you are not successful. SO the right hand is pushing and the left hand is resisting. You are maintaining a state of balance.

Your "like" of being successful is balanced by the compensatory "dislike". You feel a dynamic tension, and as you push with your right, "successful" hand, you push back,or resist with your left hand. The more you build up the strength of the right hand, the more you compensate by also building up the strength of the left.

The two balanced opposing forces of Desire and Resistance result in a state of "equilibrium".

BUT then the mind steps in and says, "I want success!" The equilibrium is upset, unbalanced. Confused. You cast about for answers, but the answers are not to be found in the physical -- outside the Vortex -- world. Looking in the physical world leads to struggle and the struggle leads to a higher level of discomfort as the physical mind seeks to find physical world answers and the two opposing forces get bigger to compensate.

Maybe the "Crash and burn" of the new desire balances by, "let's have one more pizza before we go on this damn diet" comes into play ans we try to forget about the new desire.

But then the mind, our little bitty part of Source peeking through our consciousness, works to "neutralize" the negative force and all Hell breaks loose. The forces are unbalanced.

It is like if you got used to walking into a 30 mile per hour headwind. You began to focus your muscles to push against that headwind (balancing forces). You develop a pattern that balances the headwind, so you can walk forward, and suddenly that headwind was stopped (by your mind desire) you would fall on your face. Ouch!

So we have a problem, a problem that we, here, are beginning to recognize here on Inward Quest. How do we get the goodies that are on one side and disempower the balancing force that has kept us from 'going there'?

Let's call this force that is opposing our getting the goodies, "Resistance". It's easy to say, "Give up the resistance." Yup, easy to say. Not so easy to do, or we would have flipped that switch a long time ago.

Forgive my beating this metaphor on and on! I am trying to state a fourth dimensional answer using three dimensional logic. Can't be done. So what do we do?

I submit that the answer(s) to this dilemma may not exist in our physical, three dimensional consciousness / world. But they do exist in our Vortex, the closest we can come to the 4D realm.

Our Vortex is the sweet bridge between our slice of consciousness and whole of our consciousness, our Source.

We must raise our consciousness, our vibration, to the place where the answers exist. Where the 3d mind connects with our 4d mind. Then we have easy answers. Answers that were always there, but we were making so much noise, so much clatter, trying so hard to find 3d answers that we could not hear the real and simple answers.

For the few who are still reading this ramble my point is that we need to understand that we have two balanced opposing forces. Removing one of these means we still have to deal with the other. And that balance can only be found at a higher level, i.e., in our -- in the Vortex.

Seek your Vortex for your answers. Then come out and enjoy. You can Experience and Enjoy, once you have found your Truth.

Someone please help me here, I feel much too wordy for a such simple truth that I am trying to describe. Anybody who can boil this down into a sentence or two?

EDITED:My curiosity in the Question above is that we know what we could do to be happier, and yet we meet resistance when we begin to implement change.

But what is it that pushes us to return to rote ineffectual behavior patterns? Consider an inner structure that is sort of working. It is sort of balanced. Our mind sees a better possibility. We decide to move toward that possibility, yet we regress.

Maybe quitting cigarette smoking is a better analogy. I don't smoke, having given it up along time ago. I did not "quit" I just replaced with better strategies.

I had a hard time beginning to smoke. Cough, hack! But I persisted and was finally able to smoke and look cool! My body at first resisted smoking, then it compensated and I was able to smoke just fine.

After a few years, I began to think that smoking was not healthy for me and decided there were better health strategies to pursue. But by then the COMPENSATION to smoking was in full effect! When I stopped for a short while, my body began to get the jitters. I put on weight. Nerves got raw. A myriad of other effects seized me!

Was this a reaction to not smoking? Or was it just a reaction of my body that it had all these ways of compensating for the previous smoke and these compensating responses and defences were giving me adverse reactions?

Was this "resistance" to my mind wanting to give up smoking, or my body's natural reaction in still having smoking compensatory strategies in place? So do we placate the compensatory strategies by going back to smoking, or do we work on the compensatory strategies?

I submit that working on the deeply buried subconscious mind compensatory strategies with the conscious mind, by itself, is very difficult!

I suggest that we realize that we can have deep rooted behavioral structures that are hard for us personally to change, we got to bring in the Big Guns. The Source!

And that we can hack at the branches all day long with little effect until we go for the roots. And the roots may lie in compensatory strategies. If you spend you time and effort working on the problem, you may be ignoring the roots, the compensatory strategies you have in place to balance the problem.